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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.co.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: REZ, resident, SKsh, newshell (I'm confused)
Message-ID: <5348.tnews@templar.actrix.co.nz>
Date: 15 Aug 90 23:36:06 GMT
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Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG.
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Quoted from - koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren):
> vice versa.  I don't know what REZ does, but it may be yet another
> mechanism to accomplish the same thing.  Of course, none of these

    I got the impression that Rez actually fiddled with the program when
    loading (ie: a re-write of LoadSeg) so that *it* made copies of data
    areas and so on. Which can handle some impure programs. The other
    types of resident lists don't do that (or don't seem to). They just
    take "pure" programs (determined by a checksum test) and redirect
    LoadSeg or whatever to use the loaded version all the time.

> I will probably change SKsh to use the Commodore solution when I
> compile under AmigaDos 2.0.

    How documented is the CBM resident list? I've got a prog that controls
    a resident list for Workbench, and while I use WShell I'd be interested
    in scanning the AmigaDOS list too (can't scan WShell's - proprietary).

    Same thing goes for aliases too (though I guess they can be scanned by
    running alias into a temporary file, or something).

>   - steve
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